sitting

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The act or position of one that sits.
2. n. A period during which one is seated and occupied with a single activity, such as posing for a portrait or reading a book.
3. n. A session, as of a legislature or court.
4. n. An act, condition, or period of brooding on eggs by a bird; incubation.
5. n. The number of eggs under a brooding bird; a clutch.
6. adj. Incubating a nest of eggs: a sitting hen.
7. adj. Occupying an official position; incumbent.
8. adj. Of or for sitting: a sitting posture; a sitting area in a bus station.
9. adj. Done or executed while sitting.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A meeting of a body for the discussion or transaction of business; an official session.
2. n. The interval during which, at any one time, one sits; specifically, such a period during which one sits for an artist to take a portrait, model a bust, etc.; hence, generally, any one limited portion of time.
3. n. An incubation; a brooding, as of a hen upon eggs; also, the time for brooding, or during which a bird broods.
4. n. The number of eggs on which a bird sits during a single hatching; a clutch.
5. n. The place where one sits; a seat; specifically, a space sufficient for one person in a pew of a church, or the right to such a seat.
6. n. Settlement; place of abode; seat.
7. n. In English law, the part of the year in which judicial business is transacted. See Easter term, under Easter, and Trinity term, Michaelmas term, and Hilary term, under termination
8. n. In the Society of Friends, an occasion of family worship, especially when a minister is a guest.
9. Pertaining to or characteristic of a sitter: as, a sitting posture.
10. In bot, sessile—that is, without petiole, peduncle, or pedicel, etc.
11. Befitting; suitable; becoming.

Wiktionary

1. n. a period during which one is seated for a specific purpose
2. n. a legislative session
3. n. the act (of a bird) of incubating eggs; the clutch of eggs under a brooding bird
4. v. present participle of sit.
5. adj. executed from a sitting position
6. adj. occupying a specific official or legal position; incumbent

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. Being in the state, or the position, of one who, or that which, sits.
2. n. The state or act of one who sits; the posture of one who occupies a seat.
3. n. A seat, or the space occupied by or allotted for a person, in a church, theater, etc..
4. n. The act or time of sitting, as to a portrait painter, photographer, etc.
5. n. The actual presence or meeting of any body of men in their seats, clothed with authority to transact business; a session.
6. n. The time during which one sits while doing something, as reading a book, playing a game, etc.
7. n. A brooding over eggs for hatching, as by fowls.

WordNet 3.0

1. adj. not moving and therefore easy to attack
2. adj. (of persons) having the torso erect and legs bent with the body supported on the buttocks
3. n. (photography) the act of assuming a certain position (as for a photograph or portrait)
4. n. a meeting of spiritualists
5. n. a session as of a legislature or court
6. n. the act of assuming or maintaining a seated position